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October 25

About Chernabog

I have a question about a an appearance I saw with Chernabog. There's a webiste called That fellow in the coat - which by the way seems very much like That Guy with the Glasses. On this link, they have a top ten with The Top 10 Scariest Animated Monsters, and on spot 8 is Chernabog. Anyway, about 4:30 in the movie, there's a part where Chernabog appears with Mickey Mouse and Michael Eisner. Does anyone know where this clip comes from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grey ghost (talk • contribs) 07:21, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it's an intro clip from an episode of either The Disney Sunday Movie or The Magical World of Disney, the late 1980s-early 1990s variant of the long-running Disney anthology series. During Eisner's tenure at Disney, he would film short introductory sequences for whatever was being presented that episode, much like Walt Disney himself did during the early days of the program. Unfortunately, I couldn't tell you which episode it was. --McDoob AU 93 21:56, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

American TV show recommendation for adult ESL students?

I haven't watched American TV in nearly 6 years, so I'm a little behind the times. Can someone recommend an American TV show to be shown to and discussed by adult ESL students? Some additional requirements:

no nudity
as little violence as possible
including office culture/scenes, if possible

Thank you! The Masked Booby (talk) 07:24, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the US version of The Office. -- Finlay McWalter ☻ Talk 10:26, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Big Bang Theory —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.46.29.15 (talk) 10:45, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm thinking the scientific discussions on BBT might go over the heads of ESL watchers. How about Outsourced (TV series)? Corvus cornix_talk 20:42, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Most any American sitcom from the last few decades of broadcast television would qualify. Consider looking for DVD copies of the shows, as some might have English subtitles specifically for ESL students and households. Given the criteria of an office setting, The Office might well be a good choice, as would The Drew Carey Show, Murphy Brown or Spin City. --McDoob AU 93 22:04, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Seinfeld might be a good choice given its cultural impact. DC T•C 14:37, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

auds of tv station idea succeeding

Dear wikipedia, me again, I typed up an idea for a tv station for Shaw Direct, with cartoons on it such as What's with Andy, Kids Next Door, Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Kim Possible... basicly missed cartoons from the 2000s. what are the auds of its success in actualy coming into existence? What can i do to increase these auds? 204.112.104.172 (talk) 09:54, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean "odds", as in the odds on a racehorse winning? Well, if the idea is not submitted to a commissioning body, then I'd say the odds were that the idea would not succeed! If you do submit it, then they can either say yes or no, making a 50% chance of success. Not sure what that translates to in terms of odds though - maybe evens? --TammyMoet (talk) 13:35, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can pitch the idea to someone, but nothing will happen. What you need to do is contact the producers of the shows. For example, "Life and Times of Juniper Lee" is controlled by Cartoon Network. "Kim Possible" is controlled by Disney. They will give you a price that you have to pay to have the shows on your channel. They may have restrictions, ie: Disney may say that you can't have any of their shows if you show some other show that they don't like. Once you have a lineup, you need to get advertising dollars. So, you have to hit up every company you can think of to see if they will commit to advertising. Then, you have money committed from advertising and shows committed from the producers. You have to go to all the distribution companies like Shaw Direct and ask them to add your channel to their lineup. If they agree, you can go live. As you can see, that is a lot of work filled with a lot of sales negotiations and legal work. So, pitching this idea to someone and hoping they do all the work won't amount to anything being done. -- kainaw ™ 14:20, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any other way i can see the 3 shows mentioned, as they don't have them all on youtube? Especialy what's with andy, which seems to only have episodes in other languages? 204.112.104.172 (talk) 22:34, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think we need any more channels like this. Between TVO, CBC, TFO, YTV, Treehouse, Playhouse Disney, PBS, Teletoon, Teletoon Retro, and even BBC Kids Canada, and presumably others I have forgotten (although some are only available on Rogers digital cable), you can get almost any kid's show. Kim Possible is certainly on every day already, isn't it on Teletoon? I'm pretty sure What's With Andy is on somewhere too. Adam Bishop (talk) 23:19, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Teletoon doesn't play kim possible, that was family, but not anymore. Teletoon decided to do the most idiodic thing: take what's with andy off the air. If any teletoon workers sees this, i hope their concience tells them to act smart, and put it on the air at a reasonable time again. I'd do anything to watch some episodes in english again. Youtube and other sights have them in dutch, romanian and something else, which i don't understand. I just searched for Kim Possible, it's on youtube, but i can't find what's with andy in english. Please help me, it would be greatly appreciated. Help me whether you can force teletoon to come back to their senses, or whether you can somehow help me watch an episode on youtube or something. Downloading sights are just not compadible with my PC, so just a video sight like youtube would due nicely. Please help, i miss this show so much, it was my number one favorite! 204.112.104.172 (talk) 03:01, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Strauss Family

Can you pls tell me the piece that is used as the the theme in the beginning of "The Strauss Family". This is a BBC TV mini series that is available on DVD. There is no contact information any of the Strauss web sites. Thanks, Sam —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.163.153.208 (talk) 13:44, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If what I found on YouTube is the theme song (since I haven't seen the TV show), it sounds like Strauss' Eine Nacht in Venedig. -- kainaw ™ 14:13, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(after edit conflict): The series' music was arranged and conducted by Cyril Ornadel. The soundtrack double album The Strauss Family: Original Television Mini-Series Soundtrack has a list of titles, but doesn't include "theme music" or anything like that. Answers.com says the theme music was borrowed from the Finale (Act I) in Eine Nacht in Venedig, in particular "Komm nur liebes Kind" (free, sampled snippet available on this amazon link) and "Mit der Würde" (snippet not available). I couldn't find any sources confirming this (or any other information on the series' theme music). I couldn't listen to the theme music anywhere either. Do you have a link to the recording, kainaw? ---Sluzzelin talk 14:16, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I just realized that I was listening to the music from a trailer for the "The Strauss Family" movie, not TV series. Was the TV series turned into a movie with the same music? I have no idea. -- kainaw ™ 14:24, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball Substitution Rules

Suppose we have a team with Abel, Baker, Charles, Daniel, Edward, Frank, George, Hooker, and Irwin batting in that order. Abel is up, and the manager would vastly prefer to have Charles bat next instead of Baker. Is it possible for him to substitute Charles for Baker and some tenth player Jones for Charles in the batting order? As in, he takes out Baker and puts in Jones and while doing that also changes the batting order? 96.246.58.133 (talk) 15:29, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No (at least not under the standard Major League rules). Once the manager submits the batting card at the start of the game, Charles must either bat in the #3 spot, or else leave the game. --M@rēino 15:50, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Indeed. If Charles bats after Abel (it happens sometimes, though almost never in the majors, as an accident), then Baker is ruled out. As soon as Charles steps in the batters box, Baker is ruled to have forfeited his turn at bat, and is automatically out. I only know this because, as the backup catcher on my church's slow-pitch softball team, I was also the default scorekeeper, and once noticed that a team did this. When I querried the ump on what happens when a player is skipped (the opponents did this quite innocently, in the relaxed atmosphere of the game, they simply lost track of the batting order), he called the skipped player "out". --Jayron32 05:09, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Luton Town F.C.

I wanna make this article featured on the hungarian wikipedia, and I wanna ask that, except János Kovács, does any other hungarian footballers played for the team? Madridista92 (talk) 19:59, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2010–11 Luton Town F.C. season says goalie Matyas Estherhazy tried out for the club, and played at least one first-team match for them. -- Finlay McWalter ☻ Talk 20:15, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Imre Varadi is English, but of "Hungarian origin" (says his article). -- Finlay McWalter ☻ Talk 20:19, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Theme from S'Express

In the intro of Theme from S'Express, who says 'Enjoy this trip...enjoy this trip...and it is a trip'? Secondly, is the man in the intro of the video for Theme from S'Express the same man as the one who provides the voice?--Editor510 ^{drop us a line, mate} 20:29, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to WhoSampled, the sample is spoken by Gene Roddenberry, from his 1976 LP The Star Trek Dream. [1]. I think the guy lip-synching the words at the beginning of the clip is Mark Moore. In any event it is not Gene Roddenberry. ---Sluzzelin talk 20:42, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It almost definitely is him, as he is also seen playing a keyboard later in the video, among other instruments. A quick Google Image search of 'Mark Moore sexpress' pretty much confirmed it. Anyway, thanks.--Editor510 ^{drop us a line, mate} 08:08, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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